So full of dramatic interest is the life of Edmund Kean that it formed the subject for the play " Kean " by Jean-Paul Sartre as well as a play by Alexandre Dumas, père, entitled Kean, ou Désordre et génie, in which the actor Frédérick Lemaître achieved one of his greatest triumphs.

By the time Kean College of New Jersey became a university in 1997, under President Ronald L. Applbaum, the institution had achieved a new high level of academic and public recognition.

Edmund Kean ( 4 November 178715 May 1833 ) was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever.

The two most prominent Macbeths of mid-century, Samuel Phelps and Charles Kean, were both received with critical ambivalence and popular success.

In 1810 he wrote Leo, in which Edmund Kean acted with great success ; another play, Brian Boroihme, written for the Belfast Theatre in the next year, also drew crowded houses, but his earnings were so small that he was obliged to become assistant to his father at the Belfast Academical Institution.

His first important success was Caius Gracchus, produced at Belfast in 1815 ; and his Virginius, written for Edmund Kean, was first performed in 1820 at Covent Garden.

With the help of these two literary luminaries, the curate's play, Bertram ( first staged on 9 May 1816 at the Drury Lane for 22 nights ) with Edmund Kean starring in the lead role as Bertram, saw a wider audience and became a success.

In London, Edmund Kean was the first Hamlet to abandon the regal finery usually associated with the role in favour of a plain costume, and he is said to have surprised his audience by playing Hamlet as serious and introspective.

His successor as the leading actor of London, Edmund Kean, was more often criticised for emotional excess, particularly in the fifth act.

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ( 9 / 11 Commission ), chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, was formed in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attacks, including preparedness for, and the immediate response to, the attacks.

Other notable stagings featured John Philip Kemble in 1811, Samuel Phelps in 1845, and Charles Kean in an 1856 production that was famous for its elaborate sets and costumes.

O ' Kean was founded in 1869 in the southeast corner of Randolph County.

Named after Father James P. O ' Kean of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Pocahontas, O ' Kean was located around the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad.

At the rear area of the park near Pingry School was the boundary of the Kean Estate, the boyhood home of Governor Thomas Kean ( 1982 – 1990 ).

The wealthy Kean family also donated the land on Morris Avenue and helped to establish Newark Normal College in 1885, which was renamed Kean College, and later Kean University, in the family's honor.

John Kean and Susan Livingston's great-grandson, and thus a relative of Fish, was Thomas Kean, who was elected governor of New Jersey in 1982.

He was also the author of Effigies poetica ( 1824 ), Life of Edmund Kean ( 1835 ), Essays and Tales in Prose ( 1851 ), Charles Lamb ; a Memoir ( 1866 ), and of memoirs of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare for editions of their works.

Charles John Kean ( 18 January 1811-22 January 1868 ), was born at Waterford, Ireland, the son of the actor Edmund Kean.

Kean was born in London.

His father was probably Edmund Kean ( see Ó Catháin ), an architect ’ s clerk, and his mother was an actress, Anne Carey, daughter of the 18th century composer and playwright Henry Carey.

In 1817, a local playwright named Charles Bucke submitted his play The Italians, or ; The Fatal Accusation to Drury Lane for which Kean was to play the lead.

Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the 9 / 11 Commission, which was responsible for investigating the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks and providing recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks.

The play was well received by both council and actors until Kean seemed to have a change of heart and began to make several offhand remarks that his part was not big enough for him.

Thousands of mourners filled Tennessee State University's Kean Hall on November 17, 1994, for the memorial service in her honor.

* November 2 – Kean opens at Broadway Theater in New York City for 92 performances.

Kean University serves its students in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions with a dedication to intellectual and cultural growth and is best known for its programs in the humanities and social sciences and in education, graduating the most teachers in the state of New Jersey annually.

Kean is also renowned for the physical therapy program which it holds in conjunction with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Evidence for the first adaptation of 1 Henry VI is not found until 1817, when Edmund Kean appeared in J. H.

Then, after a performance where Kean went out of his way to botch the opening night of " Switzerland " by historical novelist Jane Porter in February 1819, for whom Kean had had a personal dislike, Bucke pulled the play out of contempt for Kean's conduct .. After much cajoling to still perform the play by the theatre staff, Mr. Bucke then later had it republished with a preface concerning the incident, including excerpts from correspondences between the involved parties, which was later challenged in two books, The Assailant Assailed and A Defense of Edmund Kean, Esq.

On 29 November 1820 Kean appeared for the first time in New York as Richard III.

" Kean played the tragic Lear for a few performances.

Newspaper notice for meeting of the Boston Debating Society: " Would the public be justified in expelling Kean the tragedian from the stage on account of his private character?

Kean was sued by Cox for adultery on his return to England.

Unlike Garrick, Kean had no true talent for comedy, but in the expression of biting and saturnine wit, of grim and ghostly gaiety he was unsurpassed.

As he did in other roles, Kean exploited his athleticism as a key component of Macbeth's mental collapse.

If the range of character in which Kean attained supreme excellence was narrow, no one except David Garrick was so successful in so many great roles.

" The Color Honeymooners ", as it has since become known, featured Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean in the roles of Alice and Trixie, respectively ( Meadows and Randolph did not want to relocate to Miami ).

Kean then saw Booth as a threat and orchestrated a way for the two of them to perform those roles yet again, planning to out-perform his opponent.

Her play, Switzerland ( 1819 ), which had Edmund Kean and Charles Kemble in the principal roles, closed after one performance.

She is famous for playing on-going roles in two popular Australian soap operas: that of Reb Kean in Prisoner and Lyn Scully in Neighbours.

Though King Lear was not one of his signature roles, his interpretation of Lear's madness influenced that of Kean and other actors.